Hey there, booted up my pc and this appears
Few strange things have been happening, ive done all the usual scans we ask people to run on here etc and nothing, i do remember accidentally deleting my "Michael" Account from the C:\Users but nothing went wrong after that, that is the only thing thats changed. cheers
I found the following regarding cpu.exe
Source:Across all ThreatExpert reports, the file "cpu.exe" was mostly identified as a threat
cpu.exe | ThreatExpert statistics
Source: Microsoft CPU Over Heat Manager - CPU.exe - Program InformationThis is an undesirable program.
Filename: CPU.exe
Command: CPU.exe
Description:
A variant of the IRCBot family of worms and IRC backdoor Trojans.
Then again there is this:
Source: What is cpu.exe ? | System ExplorerOur database contains 12 different files for filename cpu.exe . This files most often belongs to product ExtLIBs. and were most often developed by company Ufasoft. This files most often have description bitcoin-miner. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process cpu.exe.
Hi. I don't know what it is or where it came from. Maybe check Windows Temp and User Temp folders.
Possible workaround:
I tend to use an application whitelisting component that can be configured to prompt for action when unsigned files attempt to run. It can be set to block automatically (not worth the hassle) or ask the user to choose an action.
Let me know if you're interested and I'll post the link.
Best,
Chris.
Last edited by Callender; 08 Jan 2014 at 18:20. Reason: correct typo
Sorry i have been busy, sorry took me a while to post back on this particular thread, I done a system restore and that seems to have solved the error:)! thanks for all your help again!
I recommend still doing your security scans.
Their might be little goodies hiding in your restore point.
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